Runo Lagomarsino: Every day people follow signs pointing to some place which is not their home(2018) Performance, the E line from Copenhagen Central Station to Køge and KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces. The performance is held at 3pm every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday throughout the exhibition run.

Runo Lagomarsino’s project was created specifically for TRANSIT. The art project addresses and plays out in states of mobility, taking the form of a performance on the E line between Copenhagen Central Station and Køge Station. Every day people follow signs pointing to some place which is not their home focuses on the area west of Copenhagen that the E line runs through and where many people with migrant backgrounds live. At Copenhagen Central Station a performer gets on the E line, carrying a newspaper in a cloth carrier bag printed with the title of the work in English on one side. The title is a quote from the English writer and art critic John Berger: Every day people follow signs pointing to some place which is not their home. On the other side of the bag the title is printed in Turkish, Arabic, Serbo-Croatian, Urdu and Polish, the languages that – besides Danish – are the statistically most prevalent in the area west of Copenhagen.

Every day the performer getting on the train is a different person from the area who speaks one of the selected languages. The performer sits down and starts reading a newspaper published in one of the five languages, either Hürriyet, Asharq al-Awsat, Vesti, Daily Jang or Gazeta Wyborcza. When the train arrives at Køge Station, the performer gets out, walks to KØS, and stands in front of a microphone place inside the exhibition to read an article of their choice aloud. Having done so, the performer hangs the newspaper on the wall. The number of newspapers will increase during the exhibition run until they fill the entire gallery.

Runo Lagomarsino’s art project brings a particular kind of newspapers into the public transit zone of the train; newspapers that are written in the languages most commonly spoken by people living in the area west of Copenhagen, but which are not usually on sale at the kiosks at E line stations. The work thereby emphasises migration as a condition affecting contemporary society in general and this area in particular. Home is, in other words, not a clear-cut category, and the fact that many people today have multiple places they call home leaves its mark on contemporary public spaces – not least on those places where we are on the move. Runo Lagomarsino was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1977. He lives and works in Malmö, Sweden and São Paulo, Brazil.

Runo Lagomarsino: Every day people follow signs pointing to some place which is not their home(2018) Performance, the E line from Copenhagen Central Station to Køge and KØS Museum of Art in Public Spaces. The performance is held at 3pm every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday throughout the exhibition run.

Runo Lagomarsino’s project was created specifically for TRANSIT. The art project addresses and plays out in states of mobility, taking the form of a performance on the E line between Copenhagen Central Station and Køge Station. Every day people follow signs pointing to some place which is not their home focuses on the area west of Copenhagen that the E line runs through and where many people with migrant backgrounds live. At Copenhagen Central Station a performer gets on the E line, carrying a newspaper in a cloth carrier bag printed with the title of the work in English on one side. The title is a quote from the English writer and art critic John Berger: Every day people follow signs pointing to some place which is not their home. On the other side of the bag the title is printed in Turkish, Arabic, Serbo-Croatian, Urdu and Polish, the languages that – besides Danish – are the statistically most prevalent in the area west of Copenhagen.

Every day the performer getting on the train is a different person from the area who speaks one of the selected languages. The performer sits down and starts reading a newspaper published in one of the five languages, either Hürriyet, Asharq al-Awsat, Vesti, Daily Jang or Gazeta Wyborcza. When the train arrives at Køge Station, the performer gets out, walks to KØS, and stands in front of a microphone place inside the exhibition to read an article of their choice aloud. Having done so, the performer hangs the newspaper on the wall. The number of newspapers will increase during the exhibition run until they fill the entire gallery.

Runo Lagomarsino’s art project brings a particular kind of newspapers into the public transit zone of the train; newspapers that are written in the languages most commonly spoken by people living in the area west of Copenhagen, but which are not usually on sale at the kiosks at E line stations. The work thereby emphasises migration as a condition affecting contemporary society in general and this area in particular. Home is, in other words, not a clear-cut category, and the fact that many people today have multiple places they call home leaves its mark on contemporary public spaces – not least on those places where we are on the move. Runo Lagomarsino was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1977. He lives and works in Malmö, Sweden and São Paulo, Brazil.